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Catalyst · Nerfy Moist Destroyer

Catalyst · Nerfy Moist Destroyer
EXERCISE 18 OF 59
6-bar fill at bar 41
102 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART G
PART P
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJPGYXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Catalyst on drums

168 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
93/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 83 and 89-91, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Catalyst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-47 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part X -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Catalyst?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Catalyst hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Catalyst?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED